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Riddles standard Britannia class 7MT pacific 70019 "Lightning" from Aston shed (21D) with steam to spare heading special 1Z11 to Llandudno from the midlands, just south of Deganwy, August 1963

Lightning still bears the western region red dot route availability code below the cabside number. She is wearing the modified brass edged hand holds retrofitted to the smoke deflectors of Western region allocated engines. This was a consequence of the findings of the enquiry into the 1955 Milton rail crash near Didcot, involving sister locomotive 70026 Polar Star.

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